dependent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 依靠的， 依赖的， 从属的； 随…而定的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although he said nothing to her that he could not have said before everybody, he felt that she was becoming more and more dependent upon him, and the more he felt this, the better he liked it, and the tenderer was his feeling for her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Clif went to New York, to a new motor agency, and Martin and Leora were more completely and happily dependent on each other than ever before.
-- "Either you do what I say, just exactly what I say, or Mart and I take the first train and go back to Zenith, and I mean it!Plenty of places open for him there, with a big salary, so we won't have to be dependent on anybody!"
-- He was silent again, and before they reached home she said only, "You know I'm the last person to speak of money, but really, it's you who have so often brought up the matter of hating to be dependent on me, and you know as Director you would make so much more that-- Forgive me!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each is dependent on the others for the rest of his life!Better hang oneself at once!And they did not know how to change the notes ei-ther; the man who changed the notes took five thousand roubles, and his hands trembled.
-- In this vice at least there is something permanent, founded indeed upon nature and not dependent on fantasy, something present in the blood like an ever-burning ember, for ever setting one on fire and, maybe, not to be quickly extinguished, even with years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For being quite alone and dependent on myself in this roughworld again, yes, I fear he did indeed,' sobbed my mother.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should have been sorry, Mr. Knightley, to be dependent on your recommendation, had I quitted Mr. Woodhouse's family and wanted another situation; I do not think you would have spoken a good word for me to any body.
-- And all the grandeur of the connexion seemed dependent on the elder sister, who was very well married, to a gentleman in a great way, near Bristol, who kept two carriages!That was the wind-up of the history; that was the glory of Miss Hawkins.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba was in a very peculiar state of mind, which showed how entirely the soul is the slave of the body, the ethereal spirit dependent for its quality upon the tangible flesh and blood.
-- Bathsheba's feeling was always to some extent dependent upon her whim, as is the case with many other women.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, "she is a good woman at bottom," said the lodgers who believed that the widow was wholly dependent upon the money that they paid her, and sympathized when they heard her cough and groan like one of themselves.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.
-- I sympathized with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none and related to none.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white.
-- "--Then, my dear Herbert, I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel, and how exposed to hundreds of chances.
-- I glanced at Herbert's home, and at his character, and at his having no means but such as he was dependent on his father for; those, uncertain and unpunctual.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In my dependent relation towards him, I have known him ten years.'
-- Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs. Pegler, he turned this presumption, on the part of a woman in her dependent position, over and over in his mind, until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet he was absolutely dependent on her, he needed her every moment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You forget your dependent position.'
-- The more Fatherly he grew as to the Marshalsea, and the more dependent he became on the contributions of his changing family, the greater stand he made by his forlorn gentility.
-- We were both too young, too dependent and helpless, to do anything but accept our separation. Pray think how long ago,' gently remonstrated Arthur.
-- It's impossible to forget,' turning his hands over and over and looking closely at them, 'that hem! that in such a life as mine, I am unfortunately dependent on these men for something every hour in the day.'
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